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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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And what if I did run my ship aground oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately but right it has not.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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